Spatial and temporal variability of summer rainfall over Ethiopia from observations and a regional climate model experiment

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 665-681

  Zeleke, T ^a,b   Giorgi, F ^a   Mengistu Tsidu, G ^b   Diro, G T ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84873103865     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0700-4     Document Type: Article

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